If you haven’t heard, there was another George Floyd incident in America.
You know, a policeman’s knee to the back of the neck of a suspect, facedown, cuffed behind his back.
But the victim this time wasn’t African American. He was Asian American of Filipino descent.
His name was Angelo Quinto. If you don’t know his name, say it a few times because the Quinto story just didn’t get the media coverage it should have.
Want to talk about race and policing in America? Then you should know Angelo Quinto.
Quinto was a 30-year-old who had served in the Navy and honorably discharged in 2019 for a food allergy. According to his family, he was recovering from a brutal altercation where he had developed paranoia and anxiety, and staying at his family’s home in Antioch California, 45 minutes east of San Francisco.
On Dec. 23, Quinto was having a mental health episode. His mother, Cassandra Quinto-Collins tried to calm her son. But her daughter, Bella Collins, 18, was scared that Angelo Quinto would hurt her mother.
